Meanings
nouncoigne of vantage (plural coignes of vantage)
plural coignes of vantage
- alternativeAlternative form of coign of vantage.
No Iutty, frieze Buttrice, nor Coigne of vantage, but this Bird Hath made his pendant bed
c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vi]1 more example
From the eaves of the several stories there hung one hundred and fifty-two bells, and countless lanterns adorned the same coignes of vantage.
1884, Robert Kennaway Douglas, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., s.v. "Nanking"
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